Waiting in Hope: What Your Friend Experiencing Infertility Wants You to Know

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Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

June is World Infertility Awareness month and because we know that many of our listeners are either experiencing infertility or know someone experiencing infertility, we wanted to have a conversation with someone who could help us all understand what it’s like to walk the road of infertility. We’re really excited to bring you today’s episode featuring Kelley Ramsey and Jenn Hesse from Waiting in Hope Ministries. Both Kelley and Jenn have walked through infertility and together they support women from all over the country who are journeying through infertility. In today’s episode, Kelley and Jenn share their stories of infertility and how experiencing the grief of infertility affected every area of their lives, including their relationship with God. We know that you’ll appreciate their candor and vulnerability throughout this conversation. But, Kelley and Jenn want you to know that even in infertility, we can wait with hope The opinions of guests on the Daily Grace podcast do not represent the opinions of The Daily Grace Co., and we do not necessarily endorse the resources that they recommend or mention on the show. We believe it is valuable to hear from a variety of guests, even if we do not agree in all areas. As always, the statements made by hosts and guests on the show should be tested against God’s Word, the only authority on truth. Sign up for the Daily Grace Podcast Newsletter and receive the free resource "Scripture for Every Season.” Time Stamps: 00:47 - Intro 01:29 - Getting to know our guests 04:08 - Our favorite things 07:20 - Motherhood is part of our identity 09:21 - Understanding infertility 12:05 - How to encourage someone struggling with infertility 15:13 - Walking with God through infertility 21:35 - How to wait with hope 25:11 - Our identity as women outside motherhood 27:28 - How the gospel changes everything 28:35 - Closing Favorite Things: Poppi Sparkling Prebiotic Soda Revlon ColorStay Ultimate Suede Lipstick Resources mentioned in this episode: Waiting in Hope Book Related Resources: Scripture for Infertility Cards Meditations for Seasons of Waiting Praying Scripture for Grief and Loss Journal Connect with Waiting in Hope Infertility Support: Website Resources Instagram Connect with us: Subscribe to Daily Grace: on iOS, go to our Apple podcast page and click subscribe. On Android, click this podcast RSS feed link and choose your podcast app. If needed, you can copy this link directly into your favorite podcast app (like Stitcher or Overcast). Or follow us on Spotify! We would love it if you took a few minutes to leave us an Apple podcast review to help spread the word about Daily Grace! We want to invite more women into our conversations! Download The Daily Grace app: for iOS, click here to download. On Android, click here to download. Visit The Daily Grace Co. for beautiful products for the whole family that will equip you on your journey to knowing and loving God more. Subscribe to The Daily Grace Newsletter and receive free Bible study resources in your inbox. Like The Daily Grace Co. on Facebook. Follow @dailygracepodcast on Instagram for exclusive podcast content and @thedailygraceco for all things The Daily Grace Co. Engage with our Facebook community, “The Daily Grace Co. Community”. Read The Daily Grace blog for encouragement throughout the week that is steeped in biblical truths.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Daily Grace. We believe the Bible is true, trustworthy, and timeless. And we want
0:17.6	to help women like you, know and love God's Word. The Bible shows us who God is and who
0:24.7	He is, changes everything. My name is Shelby and I'm Crystal. And we want to invite you to come
0:31.2	join us as we chat about the truth of God's Word in our everyday lives. Hey everybody and welcome
0:37.9	back to the Daily Grace podcast. This is Shelby and today I am joined by my friend and co-host
0:43.3	Crystal as always. Hey Crystal. Hey Shelby. And we're really thrilled to introduce you to our guests
0:50.0	today. We have two guests in the studio with us. We have Kelly Ramsey and Jen Hesse of waiting and
0:55.8	hope in fertility support ministries. And we know that infertility is a topic that touches a lot
1:02.1	of people in a lot of ways. And so we're really grateful for them being here today to share their
1:07.3	stories and also the gospel hope that they just know can be found even when you're walking through
1:13.2	infertility. So Kelly, Jen, super glad to have you ladies here today. I would love if we could
1:20.0	take this episode off by each of you just sharing a little bit about yourselves and also the
1:25.6	ministry of waiting and hope. So Kelly do you want to get us started there? Yeah, thank you so much
1:30.4	for having us. I'm Kelly Ramsey and I am the founder and visionary of waiting and hope.
1:35.7	And it started from our own journey of infertility. So my husband and I have always been a very open
1:40.9	book. We were like the first ones to get married out of anyone we knew from college. And so we
1:46.1	were always that couple. And then when infertility hit, it was like hidden. And so pretty quickly
1:52.0	in we realized we can't do this alone. And so we asked our church at the time in Houston, Texas,
1:57.7	what can we do? There's got to be more of us. And sure enough, I said, I'm willing to help and
2:02.3	do whatever. And then I got to coley for the what would become waiting and hope in fertility
2:08.5	like sport group. And so from there, it was just like, that's what we do. So I have two boys,
2:14.2	a 10 year old and a seven year old. And my husband and I have been married for, let's see,
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